This Week @Minnesota: OK Go, parenting health and a Guggenheim In "This Week @Minnesota" for the week of April 11-15, 2011, we unveil the 2011 Spring Jam headline band (LA pop quartet "Ok Go"), look at new research on the health habits of young parents and congratulate a U of M dance professor on winning a prestigious Guggenheim award!
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SeaWiFS: The Effect of the Congo on the Atlantic By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. Until now, scientists have only had a continuous record of photosynthesis on land. But following three years of continual data collected by the SeaWiFS instrument, NASA has gathered the first record of photosynthetic productivity in Author(s): No creator set

Instrumentation and Measurement for Biological Objects Students can learn not only natural phenomena and rules in plants and animals but also measurement devices for various uncertain shaped objects in this course. This unique course gives both lectures and practice using PC.Author(s): 001

Papers of the Leaf Family, 1830-1950 The Leafs were a prominent family in Beaver County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. The collection includes correspondence, blueprints, personal items, diaries, appointment books pertaining to the lives of members of the Leaf family.Author(s): This guide to the collection was originally prepar

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Guide to the Records of the Civic Club of Allegheny County, 1896-1967 The mission of The Civic Club of Allegheny County has been "to promote by education and organized non-partisan effort a higher public spirit and better social order." This collection contains Civic Club by-laws and constitution; minutes of annual, board of directors, and committee meetings; records documenting The Civic Clubs's legislative campaigns and social services; and voter directories for general and primary elections between 1930 and 1973.Author(s): This guide to the collection was originally prepar

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Collection of Adolph William Schmidt, 1957-1965 The collection contains information about the Atlantic Union including records, correspondence, and proceedings that relate to the formation of a Union among Western democracies collected by Adolph William Schmidt while he served as a delegate.Author(s): This guide to the collection was originally prepar

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Guide to the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation Records, 1931-1966 The Falk Foundation devoted its activities principally to financing studies of economic problems affecting the operations and development of the domestic economy of the United States. Files contain organizational records, financial records, correspondence, memorandum, political projects grants, economic project grants, rejected grant applications, files of foundation publications, scrapbooks, and films.Author(s): This guide to the collection was originally prepar

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What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common? Students are presented with information that will allow them to recognize that yeasts are unicellular organisms that are useful to humans. In fact, their usefulness is derived from the contrast between the way yeast cells and human cells respire. Specifically, while animal cells derive energy from the combination of oxygen and glucose and produce water and carbon dioxide as by-products, yeasts respire without oxygen. Instead, yeasts break glucose down and produce alcohol and carbon dioxide as thAuthor(s): Mary R. Hebrank

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By valuing a group positively and seeking self-determination for it, nationalists often set out to redraw maps, to create new countries or to reinstate old ones. It is rare for this to occur without (often violent) conflict. Can political theorists offer guides to dealing peacefully with such disputes?

One question which political theorists have focused on has been that of secession. Secession as an issue carries with it most of the dilemmas associated with nations and nationalism, and

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There is a strong case for regarding the third element in the ‘core structure’ of nationalism as the key one. Generally, as we have seen, nationalists want their nation to have a state, or statehood. But political self-determination might have other outlets.

From the comparatively ‘soft’ demands to harder and less compromising ones, the spectrum might consist of some form of:

recognition of the cultural distinctiveness

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Just how a nation is prioritised over other communities will have an important impact on how the terms of this second element are played out. A nation that sees itself in pluralistic or liberal terms for example – which may celebrate cultural diversity as part of its very sense of a collective identity – is, on the face of it, less likely to make particular demands or to institute extensive controls on the behaviour of its members. On the other hand, a nation that is imagined in terms of

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